Code Mobility brings the possibility of building distributed systems better suited to a range of application areas. While platforms supporting Code Mobility are already in use, support is still lacking for developing and managing mobile code systems. Mobile code monitoring is proposed in this paper as means to better identify application areas suited to code mobility, to test mobile application...

This paper uses computational simulation to investigate the lateral load-displacement behavior and failure modes of a modern 14-story reinforced concrete (RC) core wall building. The design complies with minimum code requirements current California Building Code, which is based on ASCE 7–16 ACI 318–14. representation building, accounts for material nonlinearities all structural components, empl...

Using state-of-the-art computational tools in seismology and structural engineering, validated using data from the Mw=6.7 January 1994 Northridge earthquake, we determine the damage to two 18-story steel moment-frame buildings, one existing and one new, located in southern California due to ground motions from two hypothetical magnitude 7.9 earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault. The new building...

This paper describes a BIM-enabled spatial analysis approach that enables us to compute specific quantitative data using BERA (Building Environment Rule and Analysis) Language and its tool. By comparing design alternatives for an actual building model, this paper also demonstrates building circulation and its associated properties of numeric data. The conventional software-driven approaches hav...

We introduce Mercury, a new purely declarative logic programming language designed to provide the support that groups of application programmers need when building large programs. Mercury's strong type, mode and determinism systems improve program reliability by catching many errors at compile time. We present a new and relatively simple execution model that takes advantage of the information t...

This report presents the results of a HECToR dCSE project to improve the performance of CP2K, a freely available and popular Density Functional Theory code, on HECToR. Building on a recently implemented domain decomposition method, further optimisation of the code was performed, and significant performance gains were measured around 30% on 256 cores (for a generally representative benchmark) an...

We introduce Mercury, a new purely declarative logic programming language designed to provide the support that groups of application programmers need when building large programs. Mercury's strong type, mode and determinism systems improve program reliability by catching many errors at compile time. We present a new and relatively simple execution model that takes advantage of the information t...

Xtext is a popular language workbench conceived to support development of tooling (e.g. parsers and editors) for textual languages. Although Xtext offers strong support for source code generation when building tooling for Domain Specific Languages (DSL), the amount of hand-written source code required to give support to complex General Purpose Languages (GPL) is still significant. This research...

Abstract — In this paper, we propose a novel method to construct low rate recursive convolutional codes. The ‘overall’ convolutional code has a block code and a simple recursive convolutional code as building blocks. The novelty of this type of convolutional code is that it uses coset leaders in order to distinguish the signals that originate from different states. Several of these codes are th...

This article outlines the ongoing work in relation to personality and programming ability. Previous work by the author focussed on code review and personality, discovering that certain personality factors were correlated with performance on a code review task. The current work is more concerned with code comprehension ability. In addition to the personality factors mentioned above, experience, ...